Unless you've been actively involved in feminism for a while now and thus know your way around to actually credible and perfectly reasonable sites, there's a good chance you'll keep bumping into the more extreme sort in the usual social networking sites. Even if you didn't, it doesn't change the fact that in an online environment, feminism is currently very poorly represented.

When you say "school paper", are you referring to high school or college? Because I'm definitely seen some editorials in college papers that were...."questionable" at best. Does it seem like the author even had exposure to mainstream feminism, or was she just basing her opinions on Tumblr style radfems?

Our University paper had some dumb op-ed at one point about how some chick hates feminism because she wants to grow up to be a housewife. A bunch of us held a public panel about what feminism REALLY is as a response, with the author as one of the guests. So much righteous rage relieved that day.

It's not only her opinion that I find infuriating; it was just a poorly written article. There was no flow and contradictions all over the place.

Not only that, but we attend a school that is only 29% women. And this is the edition being published during the incoming freshmen orientation. I think it is a terrible thing to publish as a new group of young women get really introduced to our school.